NGC 5951


Combination of 80, 3 minute images unfiltered.
SBIG STL-1001E CCD. 20" f/6.8 Dall-Kirkham cassegrain telescope at prime focus.

NGC 5951 is a nice, almost edge-on spiral galaxy in Serpens that I imaged while it was in the field of an asteroid I was studying. The small face-on galaxy towards the bottom right is the 16.5 magnitude PGC 1468533.